According to the action plan, China will promote Internet Plus in several sectors such as healthcare, elderly care, education and culture, to boost new consumption based on internet platforms, and develop online and offline coordinated consumption.

According to a report from the China E-commerce Research Center, in 2017, China’s online education market was worth 240.2 billion yuan, up 53.97 percent from the previous year. The figure is expected to grow to more than 400 billion yuan in market scale in 2018.

The upgrade in information capacity usually brings about great changes, Wang Zhenzhong, an engineer from Alibaba Group, told the newspaper. “It will upgrade the former consumption and create new consumption sectors.” (China Daily)